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Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 1
RecommendedRonald Brautigam (piano), Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Brautigam and Willens plainly believe in this music: they collaborated on the editions used, and create performances of lightness and transparency, matched by the recording’s clarity. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st July 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Johann Wilhelm Wilms: The Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Ronald Brautigam (fortepiano), Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
The Cologne-based period instrument ensemble responds to Michael Alexander Willens’s insightful direction with affectionate warmth and incisive attentiveness. Roland Brautigam, meanwhile, deploys... —
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Record Review, 17th December 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Disc of the Month
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Fischer… offers a sparkling performance of the popular overture to Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, and his account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is impressive, with the major-mode episodes... —
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Flute Concertos from the Netherlands: Coenen, Wilms, Verhey
Jacques Zoon (performer), Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Thierry Fischer
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Johann Wilhelm Wilms: Sonatas For Piano and Flute Op. 15
Helen Dabringhaus (flute), Sebastian Berakdar (piano)
[Dabringhaus] Her playing is immaculate, stylish, and delightful, as is the pianism of accompanist Sebastian Berakdar. The recorded sound is crisp and clear, and MDG provides its usual detailed... —
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Sparkly, pretty tunes and jaunty rhythms were the order of the day, and they pour forth in an endless profusion from Wilms’s pen. At every turn in these piano quartets, the dead Mozart, dying... —
